Control Panel in Joomla

Control Panel in Joomla

Control Panel screen allows to joomla users to edit the functionality of Joomla Content Management System software. To access Control Panel in joomla, first of all login in Joomla Administrator Panel and go to Site -> Control Panel.

Global Configuration:

Global configuration plays an important role in joomla, with the help of global configuration we have to reset the default site setting and Meta keyword or keyword description which helped to site in search engine crawling.

Here, you can reset site information such as Site Name, SEO Settings, Meta Data Settings and Cookies Settings etc. Global configuration manager contains mainly four things such as Site, System, Server and Permissions.

System: This screen will display to reset some system information’s such as system setting, Debug Settings, Cache Settings and Session Settings.

Server:This screen display to reset the server information. There are fives component which is used to reset server settings, that components are Server Settings, Location Settings, FTP Settings, Database Settings and Mail Settings.

Let’s take a look on these five components.

Server Settings: This screen will display to reset some important server settings such as path of temporary file, error reporting and secure socket layer (SSL) options etc.

Location Settings: This screen will display to select time zone, continents wise.

Database Settings: In this section you have to fill some information’s related to your database which is used by joomla software for storing information.

Mail Settings: This section is used for sending a mail. Here, you have to fill some information related to SMTP server which will used by SMTP server at time of sending mail.

Permission: This tab enables the permission setting screen where you could reset the default permission that is managing the permission settings for the user groups.

After filling all the required information in text fields, click on ‘Save & Close’ button.

Edit Profile:

This screen will display administrator account information, which had created at installing time of joomla software. With the help of edit profile options you could change super user information such as Login name, Login Password, Email Id and some basic information related to template style language etc.

Let’s take a look on edit profile component.

Fill all information in text fields and click on ‘Save & Close’ button.

Now your edited information is save successfully into database and you can login in Joomla Administrator Panel through new username and password.

So control panel is a joomla components collection page form where you can easily manage the entire component in joomla software.